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Quotes by German Authors
"Indeed, if a chief question does remain: how is the power to think possible? - The power to think right and left, before and without, with and above experience? then it does not take a deduction to prove the genealogical priority of language."
"Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own."
"I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea."
"Yes, Socialists should defend their country in great historical crises."
"The men of the future will yet fight their way to many a liberty that we do not even miss."
"A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast."
"My parents were angry, but they were relieved that I was in good condition. They had been afraid the Russians would torture me. They told me not to do it again!"
"Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup."
"And it also became clear that these conditions of inequality and historical injustice have given rise to a feeling of hate in the world - a deeply felt hate that cannot easily be overcome with a few good words."
"I had to delegate authority to the people on my staff. That means you shave away the hierarchy."
"Imprisonment hit me so hard - much harder than I had thought."
"The ideal of a pure phenomenology will be perfected only by answering this question; pure phenomenology is to be separated sharply from psychology at large and, specifically, from the descriptive psychology of the phenomena of consciousness."
"My connection with the Reich Ministers was of a purely official nature and was very infrequent."
"The organizing principle, which according to an eternal law creates the different essential organs of the body, and animates them, is not itself seated in one particular organ."
"The Communist Party said that I must finish my studies because after the revolution in Germany people would be required with technical knowledge to take part in the building of the Communist Germany."
"The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle."
"The mission proper to the Church is that of proclaiming the Gospel."
"Our reason arises, at the very least, from this twofold lesson of sensuous revelations and human testimonies."
"High towers, and metaphysically-great men resembling them, round both of which there is commonly much wind, are not for me. My place is the fruitful bathos, the bottom-land, of experience; and the word transcendental, does not signify something passing beyond all experience, but something that indeed precedes it a priori, but that is intended simply to make cognition of experience possible."
"Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy."
"The iPod completely changed the way people approach music."
"Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it."
"A musician cannot move others unless he too is moved. He must of necessity feel all of the affects that he hopes to arouse in his audience, for the revealing of his own humour will stimulate a like humour in the listener."
"Such sins, even if they do not kill all grace in us, do harm, nevertheless; and though they are only venial in themselves, they make us apt, ready, and inclined to lose grace and to fall into mortal sin."
"We have to recognize that the freedom of the individual has to be protected not only from the power of the state, but even more so from economic and societal power."
"Oh, I think every author is inspired by all of the books that she reads."
"Talent develops in tranquility, character in the full current of human life."
"Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life."
"For Christ, both God and man, must lay hold on us in order that there may be a union between Him and us."
"Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men."
"A man can do as he will, but not will as he will."
"You can't cover people with perceptions because we are all different."
"We had to move forward after the war and see the realities."
"The future battle on the ground will be preceded by battle in the air. This will determine which of the contestants has to suffer operational and tactical disadvantages and be forced throughout the battle into adoption compromise solutions."
"On the one hand, the financial projection is on the agenda - we will see if this problem can be resolved or not. I think it is a right idea to stage a special summit, which would deal with the question of priorities of European politics."
"One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can get anything out of life without God."
"We are seeing significant growth in foreign investment in Germany."
"The rockets... can be built so powerfully that they could be capable of carrying a man aloft."
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